Hacker News Reader

interrupt_on Ask HN: Best 4k display for dev work?

I've started using a LG 27UL650 4K and so far it seems good. I noticed some mild ghosting though... not sure if it's config related.

interrupt_on How do you guys nowadays find cool things online?

I really miss StumbleUpon

interrupt_on Netlify was down

There is something to be said about letting experts do what they do best.

interrupt_on Google says its carbon footprint is now zero

They don't have control over that. They can only ensure the energy required to run the services are offset.

interrupt_on A truth that works: Making sense of the world with William James

I didn't see that, thanks.

interrupt_on A truth that works: Making sense of the world with William James

why? honest question

interrupt_on Ask HN: How often do you check HN?

This looks interesting. Thank you! I'll give it a try over the next few days.

interrupt_on Ask HN: How often do you check HN?

I check it too much too :)

One thing that makes it worse is that I don't know what are the new entries in the front page, so I have to scan it again and again. I wish there were a better way.

interrupt_on Getting Fiber to My Town [video]

It's fairly regulated here. The regulation says that the companies that own the poles are obligated to sell that space to any other telcos that want to rent it.

interrupt_on Getting Fiber to My Town [video]

Here in my 3rd world country, fiber is getting pretty common. Small ISPs just rent space on poles and lay the fiber to the extend that I can choose from 4 different fiber ISPs in my home.

It amazes me how difficult it seems to get the same in more developed places like US/Canada.

interrupt_on Ask HN: Anyone else have trouble focusing?

Neat idea. They could multitask background tasks as much as needed but keep just a single app on display. Like smartphones.

interrupt_on Ask HN: What would you make if you had 1000 hours?

Probably nothing. I usually dream of having weekends for myself but when I do, I don't do anything with them. It's pretty depressing.

interrupt_on Optimize Onboarding

I once got told by a manager that they didn't expect new hires to make big contributions in the first year. That was after I complained I was feeling very unproductive and wanted some help to speed things up. I quit after a few months because the slowness of everything around me was making me depressed.

This was at a top5 website company.

interrupt_on Radicle-Link: Extending Git with Peer-to-Peer Network Discovery

In fact, Git was only created when Linus’ free Bitkeeper license was revoked after a Linux kernel contributor tried to reverse engineer its networking protocols

Bit-who?

interrupt_on Ask HN: What educational YouTube channels do you watch?

Veritasium (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHnyfMqiRRG1u-2MsSQLbXA)

interrupt_on Coping with Cats

> I circulate air in my house every day

Might be hard to do that in really cold weather. I live in a place that's very warm and the windows are always open, so I can't relate.

interrupt_on Gitlab reducing free tier CI/CD minutes from 2000 to 400 minutes

I wonder what would be the response here if GitHub did the same.

interrupt_on Most-favorited Hacker News posts

I use the favorites feature as a kind of "read later" list (which I never do).

interrupt_on Amazon deletes job listings for analysts to track ‘labor organizing threats’

It seems perfectly fine and honest from them. Did anyone expect any different? I'm not saying it's bad, just that's the reality of the job.

interrupt_on Nessie – Lightweight Web Browser

https://github.com/microsoft/ChakraCore

interrupt_on Ubuntu 20.04’s zsys adds ZFS snapshots to package management

ZFS is great but aren't we better off focusing on something else like btrfs? The whole licensing situation makes me nervous to adopt this.